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 * Topic: Life cycle **

RL.2 3.Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 1.Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. 2.Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. 5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. RI.2 7.Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. 10.By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 5. Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. RF.2 f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. L.2.1 e.Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
 * Common Core standards: **

Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills:
 * Suggested student objectives: **
 * Story structure
 * Infer/Predict
 * Multi-Meaning Words
 * Contractions
 * Write to respond/poem


 * Suggested additional readings: **

Journeys lesson activities
 * Resource links: **

Student learning outcome: Identify changes in a setting using textual evidence. Duration: approximately 50 minutes. Necessary materials: //Provided//:
 * Activities: **
 * Example chart
 * Independent practice worksheet

//Not Provided//:
 * __Bigmama’s__ by Donald Crews
 * Chart paper
 * Markers
 * Lesson plan

Teacher will explain that the setting of a story is where and when the story takes place and that we look at the text and pictures in a story to determine the setting. Teacher will explain that in most stories the setting does not stay the same throughout the book and by paying attention to how the setting changes, we can understand the story better. Teacher will model using the text, clue words and pictures to determine the setting at the beginning of __Bigmama’s__ by Donald Crews. Teacher will read the book aloud (stopping at page 12), discussing and charting (example provided) the evidence from the book that helps us determine the setting. (See Direct Teaching and Guided Practice Teacher Example Chart in Teacher and Student Materials below.) Teacher will discuss how and why the setting changes up to page 12. Ask: "How did I determine the setting changes in the book?" Students should respond that as you read, you charted where and when the story was taking place on each page. You then thought about how and why the setting changed in the story. Teacher and students will use the text, clue words and pictures to identify and chart the setting and how the setting changes throughout the rest of the book. (Direct Teaching and Guided Practice Teacher Example Chart is provided below).
 * ===DIRECT TEACHING===
 * TIP:** Support student understanding by explicitly identifying changes in setting according to the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
 * ===THINK CHECK===
 * ===GUIDED PRACTICE===
 * ReadWorks - setting practice sheet

Students will use clue words to identify the setting in various parts of a new book. They will identify three different settings in the book and explain how they knew the setting changed in the story. (Student Independent Practice provided below.)
 * ** ASSESSMENTS **
 * ===INDEPENDENT PRACTICE===
 * TIP:** The Independent Practice can be completed using a new read aloud book or with a leveled guided reading book. Make sure that the book chosen for the Independent Practice has at least three clear settings, such as __How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World__ by Marjorie Priceman, __Flat Stanley__ by Jeff Brown, __Someplace Else__ by Carol P. Saul, or __The Moon Ring__ by Randy Deburke

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